On her return home from Blyth, Molloy received an invitation from the Irish actor and director Deirdre Herbert to the five-woman show A Touch of the Plough, because the production featured a theatrical Ann Elizabeth McGlone from No Mate for the Magpie. In June 1987 all the major Irish papers reviewed the production, as well as smaller outlets and RTE. The production’s popularity—in large part due to Ann Elizabeth’s character played by Sheila McWade—would give Molloy a new avenue for her creativity, boost her confidence as a writer, and for a season allow her to be one of the most talked about Irish writers in Dublin. Molloy was asked by Herbert and the Ceasar Theatre Group to write an all-female play for them. Herbert applied for an Irish Arts Council grant that would allow the actresses and Molloy to meet and work on new production at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig in 1988. They were awarded the grant. The Ceasars and Molloy met in January 1988 at Annaghmakerrig. However, there was one problem from Molloy’s perspective: she had never written for the theater.